Registration

Activation

Activation of the online publication deposit procedure can be applied for using a web form in the My Account section.

There are currently three methods for submitting online publications: Submission via web form and two automatic submission methods - harvesting and hotfolder. Metadata needs to be submitted alongside the objects themselves in both automatic submission procedures.

1. Delivery of online publications via the web form

Submission via the web form is possible for monograph online publications, university dissertations and theses, sheet music and periodical online publications but currently not for audio books.

2. Delivery of online publications using automatic delivery methods

Journal articles and volumes can only be deposited automatically on a regular basis if the bibliographic details of the journal are already listed in the catalogue of the German National Library. An identifier (such as ISSN, URN or an internal system ID) is recorded for this which must then be transmitted in the metadata of the articles and volumes. This permits the automatic linking of journal titles and deliveries.

OAI-Harvesting

In the case of automatic delivery (OAI harvesting), the submitter identifies a repository from which the German National Library can automatically obtain information on any new publications. This is effected using a technical protocol which describes the exact procedure and which must be implemented by both parties - a harvesting protocol, e. g. OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). All the metadata necessary for processing can be retrieved via an interface. Manual interaction between the submitter and the German National Library is no longer required for this. OAI-PMH based on HTTP, i. e. all security mechanisms which support the HTTP can be used to secure the transmitted information against security breaches. Further information can be obtained in the following introduction:

Automatic hotfolder submission procedure

In the hotfolder procedure an account is set up for each submitter. This is then used for actively transmitting the object and metadata to the German National Library via the SFTP or WebDAV interface. Individual transfer packages are submitted. These consist of zipped containers, each holding an object and a corresponding set of metadata.